Sound Off for Feb. 15

Published 12:00 am, Thursday, February 14, 2013

I give credit to the town workers for the clear streets but not to a lot of its residents. Many residents live in areas of town where they have sidewalks in front of their homes and these sidewalks are used by children to walk to and from school. It is the residents' responsibility to have these walks cleared for the children. Many sidewalks in town remain uncleared. This is putting the children at risk as they now have to walk in the streets. As the homeowner you are responsible to clear the walks. If you are unable, then I'm sorry, but you need to get a neighborhood kid to clear it or hire someone. Many towns actually have laws that allow them to fine residents for not clearing sidewalks. I'm not sure if Winsted does, but it could be a way to get some money back in the coffers.

Regarding funeral processions: I was under the impression that funeral processions where no longer "allowed" to disregard traffic signals. I would assume that school buses would fall into this category. (Yes I am well aware what the word assume means to some).

Personally I generally pull over if it is safe to do so and allow the funeral processions to pass by out of respect.

It used to be that processions would get a police escort, at least when my grandparents passed away back in 1981 and 1982. Against the law....I don't believe so, respectful ....definitely.

You are correct -- there is no law allowing a funeral procession to have the right of way. A bill in 2009 was introduced but never got out of committee.

Now it remains to be seen if this school bus had a camera on board to identify passing cars and if those cars will receive a ticket.

We need a leader who can get back to "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country".

Winsted children returned to school today on time, so evidently the town has done something right. You said "one would think that during regular working hours snow removal could be done." What do you think they are trying to do?

Give credit to your town crew for the work they have done and continue to do to clear the blizzard snowfall from your streets.

When Obama says the U.S. economy is an unfinished task, what he really means is that he is not done destroying the U.S. economy.

Obama gets a A for speech performance and a F for speech substance just like his economic policy which is a total failure.

There was a story in the Register Citizen recently about working people between the ages of 40-60 giving up seeking employment. First of all, anyone over the age of 45 is going to have a very difficult time finding employment worthy of a livable wage and good health benefits.

Any 25-year-old manager is going to look at a person 20 or better their senior and view them as old, slow and unproductive. I am not speaking about people that have specific skills, I am speaking about the millions of us that were taught the skills of a particular factory that were only beneficial to that factory. At 50 years old it is difficult to trade in your machine operating skills and replace them with a keyboard or a laptop computer. Yes, many of us right here in America used to build many of the items that you have right in your home.

And as long as we have a need for these items there is no need to render factories as obsolete. Instead of many of us are out of work because of the greed of others and exploration of Chinese people that American Industrialist feel are beneath them.